Class 2 GK Worksheet: National Symbols of India
Remember (Symbol and title): Animal – tiger, bird – peacock, flower – lotus, fruit – mango, tree – banyan, river – Ganga, aquatic animal – river dolphin, heritage animal – elephant. Anthem – Jana Gana Mana (written by Rabindranath Tagore), song – Vande Mataram, motto – Satyameva Jayate, emblem – the Lion Capital of Ashoka from Sarnath. Flag: saffron on top, white in the middle, green at the bottom; the Ashoka Chakra has 24 spokes.
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- 1.True or false: “mango” is India’s national fruit. (a) True (b) False
- 2.🇮🇳 How many coloured bands (stripes) does the Indian flag have?
- 3.🇮🇳 “Vande Mataram” is India’s ___. (a) national animal (b) national tree (c) national motto (d) national song
- 4.🇮🇳 “Satyameva Jayate” is India’s ___. (a) national motto (b) national tree (c) national flower (d) national song
- 5.True or false: “tiger” is India’s national flower. (a) False (b) True
- 6.🇮🇳 What colour is the Ashoka Chakra on our flag? (a) navy blue (b) red (c) green (d) saffron
- 7.🇮🇳 What is India’s national animal? (a) Jana Gana Mana (b) tiger (c) lotus (d) Ganga
- 8.🇮🇳 What is India’s national anthem? (a) Ganga (b) Vande Mataram (c) river dolphin (d) Jana Gana Mana
- 9.🇮🇳 What do we call our three-coloured national flag? (a) Kamal (b) Ganga (c) Ashoka (d) Tiranga
- 10.🦁 Our national emblem, the Lion Capital, comes from which place? (a) Sarnath (b) Agra (c) Jaipur (d) Mumbai
- 11.🇮🇳 Which colour is at the top of the Indian flag? (a) saffron (b) green (c) white (d) navy blue
- 12.🇮🇳 “banyan” is India’s ___. (a) national emblem (b) national tree (c) national animal (d) national flower
- 13.True or false: “Ganga” is India’s national river. (a) True (b) False
- 14.🎵 About how many seconds does it take to sing the full national anthem?
- 15.True or false: “Jana Gana Mana” is India’s national anthem. (a) False (b) True
- 16.True or false: “Vande Mataram” is India’s national song. (a) True (b) False
- 17.True or false: “banyan” is India’s national tree. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🇮🇳 “Lion Capital of Ashoka” is India’s ___. (a) national motto (b) national flower (c) national emblem (d) national aquatic animal
- 19.📅 On which date is India’s Independence Day? (a) 2 October (b) 26 January (c) 15 August (d) 14 November
- 20.🇮🇳 How many spokes does the Ashoka Chakra on our flag have?
- 21.🇮🇳 “Ganga” is India’s ___. (a) national flower (b) national song (c) national tree (d) national river
- 22.🇮🇳 What is India’s national river? (a) Ganga (b) lotus (c) tiger (d) elephant
- 23.True or false: “mango” is India’s national aquatic animal. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: “peacock” is India’s national bird. (a) False (b) True
- 25.🇮🇳 Which colour is in the middle of the Indian flag? (a) green (b) saffron (c) red (d) white
- 26.🇮🇳 What is India’s national aquatic animal? (a) river dolphin (b) Jana Gana Mana (c) peacock (d) Vande Mataram
- 27.True or false: “tiger” is India’s national motto. (a) True (b) False
- 28.🦁 How many lions stand back to back on the Lion Capital of Ashoka?
- 29.📜 What does “Satyameva Jayate” mean? (a) work is worship (b) might is right (c) unity is strength (d) truth alone wins
- 30.🇮🇳 What is India’s national fruit? (a) lotus (b) banyan (c) mango (d) tiger
- 31.True or false: “banyan” is India’s national emblem. (a) False (b) True
- 32.True or false: “Ganga” is India’s national fruit. (a) False (b) True
- 33.True or false: “peacock” is India’s national emblem. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🎵 Who wrote our national anthem, Jana Gana Mana? (a) Tulsidas (b) Kalidasa (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Valmiki
- 35.True or false: “Lion Capital of Ashoka” is India’s national emblem. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: “mango” is India’s national emblem. (a) False (b) True
- 37.True or false: “elephant” is India’s national heritage animal. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🇮🇳 “tiger” is India’s ___. (a) national animal (b) national motto (c) national song (d) national aquatic animal
- 39.🇮🇳 What is India’s national heritage animal? (a) elephant (b) Ganga (c) banyan (d) Jana Gana Mana
- 40.🇮🇳 What is India’s national bird? (a) Vande Mataram (b) elephant (c) Jana Gana Mana (d) peacock
Answer key
- True
- 3
- national song
- national motto
- False
- navy blue
- tiger
- Jana Gana Mana
- Tiranga
- Sarnath
- saffron
- national tree
- True
- 52
- True
- True
- True
- national emblem
- 15 August
- 24
- national river
- Ganga
- False
- True
- white
- river dolphin
- False
- 4
- truth alone wins
- mango
- False
- False
- False
- Rabindranath Tagore
- True
- False
- True
- national animal
- elephant
- peacock
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